management course chapter 7

Informally defined organizations made up of unofficial employee working relationships are often referred to as __________ organizations.

shadow

A(n) __________ graphically describes the arrangement of work positions and reporting relationships.

organization chart

Dividing the work to be done into a number of jobs that can be done by different people with different skills is called __________.

division of labor

Allows a worker to complete a full time job in less than five day

compressed workweek

At Ink Pens Manufacturing (IPM), there are departments of Marketing, Engineering, and Manufacturing. IPM exemplifies a __________structure.

functional

At AZN Media, Inc., each job is split between at least two people. This is an example of:

Job sharing

Big Money Bank has many branches which are all managed by branch managers who have loans, investments, operations, and trust managers reporting directly to them. This is an example of a __________ structure.

product

Top management has the power to make most of the important decisions in a ______ organization.

centralized

Organizations that are most likely to have centralized management are:

Mechanistic organizations.

give employees some choice in daily work hours

flexible working hours

Are adaptive, using a decentralized and horizontal structure

organic designs

emphasizes formal authority, rules, order, fairness, and efficiency

bureaucracy

when ____, top management allows lower levels to help make money decisions

decentralization

is the process of configuring organizations to meet environmental challenges.

organizational design

uses information technologies to operate as a shifting network of alliances

virtual organization

uses IT to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors